Synopsis

The American Dame

$13

Philip C. Lewis

Published by Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

In setting forth his study of American Womanhood (and how she got to be what and where she is) the author begins at the beginning - with Eve and the apple

From this earliest hint of what was to come he moves on, in historical sequence, through biblical and Elizabethan times and, drawing closer to home, to the lot of Indian squaws and Puritan and Colonial ladies

Supplementing his own sprightly imagination with vivid excerpts from journals, biographies, letters, plays, newspapers, sermons, and even trial extracts he constructs a well-defined and amusing picture of his ever changing yet always intriguing subject

As times (and mores) move on, the author sharpens focus on his subject with witty examinations of the first American working girl; the educated woman; the frontier wife; the suffragette; the bloomer girl and the clubwoman

The men may be reluctant to admit it, but The American Dame is on her way to becoming an equal partner with the male. In fact before the cycle is complete the admission is finally and grudgingly made that perhaps women are the superior sex after all

The author describes a "play/out" as "an entertainment where actors announce a theme and then play it out." In this case the theme is the saga of American Womanhood, humorously and comprehensively set forth through material drawn from a wide range of sources

The general format is a series of contiguous skits and readings, done without scenery and employing only the "simplest of props and snatches of costumes"

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